Chapter VI - Vexamen
Chapter VI - Vexamen SRG’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations were being organised in a big way in Baroda. Although the Anniversary fell in May 1935, as was done ten years previously, the celebrations were carried out during the cooler winter months - in the 1 st week of January 1936. The Viceroy - Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon along with his wife, were the guests of honour. There was the usual remission of arrears of land revenue, pardoning the sentences of prisoners in the state's jails; announcements of donations and gifts; there were sports, public and private entertainments, military parades, processions, fireworks: plays and performances by singers, dancers and theatre companies. SRG arranged the setting up of the Sir Sayajirao Diamond Jubilee Trust, where he donated Rs 1 crore of his own money, where the interest earned helped cater to the education and other needs of the people of the State